Penholder



No. 65,007. Patented Nov. 29, I898. a. n. WOBBE.

PENHOLDEB.

(Application filed Feb. 14, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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PENHOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 615,007, dated November 29, 1898. Application filed February 14, 1898. Serial No. 670,251. (No model.)

To all whom it ntcty concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE D. VVOBBE, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Penholders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

Myinvention has relation to improvements in penholders; and it consists in the construction and combination of parts more fully set forth in the specification and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of the holder with parts of the inner tube broken away and the outer casing in section. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a detached view of the outer casing with parts broken away. Fig. at is a detached view of the inner tube, partly broken away. Fig. 5 is a detached View of the pen-holding tip. Fig. 6 is a detached view of the movable bar carried within the inner tube. Fig. 7 is a detached View of the plug for the inner tube, and Fig. 8 is a section on line 8 8 of Fig. 1.

The object of my invention is to construct a penholder wherein a yielding connection will be formed between the portion held by the fingers and the part carrying the pen, the purpose of this arrangement being to permit the user of the pen to relax in a measure the grip with which the ordinary penholder is generally held, and thus avoid the callousness ofthe finger-tips (especially the tip of the middle finger) resulting from the constant friction between the holder and fingers in the case of persons whose occupation compels them to use the pen constantly.

In detail the invention may be described as follows:

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the inner section or tube of the holder, said tube constituting the holder proper. To one end of the tube is adapted to be screwed or otherwise secured a pen holding tip 2, the continuation of whose inner reduced screw-threaded portion is in the form of a cup 3. Mounted loosely in the tube 1 is a sliding bar 4, provided with a laterally-projecting pin 5, 0perating in the longitudinal slit 6 cut in the pe ripheral walls of the tube and extending a suitable distance beyond said wall. Each end of the bar 4: terminates in a cup 7. The opposite end of the tube 1 is adapted to be closed by a plug 8, whose inner end also terminates in a cup 9, similar to the cups 3 and '7. Between each pair of cups is adapted to be inserted a coiled spring 10, the opposite ends of the spring resting in the bases of the cups and the resiliency of the springs retaining the bar 4 in its normal position in the tube -that is, with the pin 5 about the middle of the length of the slit 6. The tube or section 1 is adapted to be loosely embraced by an outer casing or section 11 into an opening 12 of which the projecting end of the pin 5 snugly fits, thereby effecting a rigid connection between the outer casing and the inner sliding bar 4 and of course a yielding connection between such outer casing and the inner tube. Should the person writing for any reason bear down upon the surface written upon, the springs by which the two sections of the penholder are thus connected will yield under such pressure, causing the outer casing to slide freely about the inner tube or section (see dotted position in Fig. 2) in the direction of the pen, the parts resuming their normal position when the pressure is removed. In thus yielding under the circumstances referred to the friction between the fingers of the party writing and the outer casing is reduced to a minimum and the callousness of the skin wholly or in great measure avoided.

It is to be observed that minor changes might be made without departing from the spirit of my invention. For example, the form of spring here shown may have a substitute in some other and equivalent form. Neither do I limit myself to the number of springs or their manner of connection or the form of tip and plug or the manner in which theyare secured to the inner tube or section.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. A penholder comprising an inner penholding tube or section havinglongitudinallyslit walls, an outer casin g loosely passed over and embracing the peripheral walls of said tube,and a barlocated within the tube and connected to the outer casin g and having a yield ing connection with the interior of said tube, substantially as set forth.

2. A penholder comprising an inner penholding tube or section, there being a slit formed in the peripheral walls of the tube, a spring-controlled bar mounted in said tube, an outer casing loosely passed over the tube, and a connecting-pin between the bar and easing, said pin serving to effect connection between the bar and easing, the parts operating substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

3. A penholdcr comprising an inner penholding tube or section, there being a slit formed in the peripheral walls of the tube, a pen-holding tip carried at one end of the tube, a plug carried at the opposite end, cups formed at the inner ends of the tip and plug respectively, a bar mounted loosely in the tube, cups GEOR HE D. \VOBBE.

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